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The Kabul street art, murals have been painted over by Taliban propaganda slogans, which surrounded the security wall around Kabul, and replaced them with short sentences supporting Taliban extremist ideology. with Taliban white flag with text in Arabic "There is not God but Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah', after the Taliban took over the Afghan capital Kabul, on August 15, The murals were drawn over a period of seven years by art collective- ArtLords. Over 2,200 murals painted across the country since 2014 venerated Afghan heroes, emphasized dialogue in place of violence and called for greater rights and freedoms for women. This is not the first time the Taliban has taken a stand against the arts in Afghanistan. When the Taliban was last in power, from 1996 to 2001, the regime defaced public paintings and destroyed cultural heritage sites around the country. Kabul. Afghnistan. 07/12/2021
Lieu : KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
Mots clés : Afghanistan, Taliban, street art, art, mural, Taliban flag, Afghanistan war, Holy War, Islam, Islamic Emirate, Islamic State, Afghanistan photos, Afghanistan images, Kabul, Alfred Yaghobzadeh